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The Hands of Vrindavan
- Robert Reynolds
Katie Walter BA '09, a first-generation college graduate, seeks positive change in India by starting a women's artisan collective.
Vrindavan lies on the banks of northern India's Yamuna River, not far from the Taj Mahal. Considered the childhood home of Lord Krishna, an important Hindu deity, Vrindavan is one of India's most sacred pilgrimage sites. It's depicted in Hindu mythology as lush and verdant, its holy river fresh and clear. Today, a few isolated parts of the city are still beautiful, but the poverty can be overwhelming. The once clear Yamuna River is choked with fertilizer runoff, industrial effluents, and raw sewage. Overdevelopment and deforestation, air and noise pollution, and monkey menace (from urban spread) add to the troubles for its most vulnerable residents: widows and their children.
Known as the City of Widows, Vrindavan has a total population of 57,000, nearly a quarter of which are destitute women who have been widowed or abandoned. They pour into the town, either in observance of centuries-old religious and societal prescriptions or because their families, unwilling or unable to support them, have left them here.
Just outside the main city, on the road that leads to Mathura, Krishna's birthplace, Babita and her 12-year-old son, Lav, live in a tiny concrete room with no bathroom or kitchen, no running water or electricity. They pilfer electricity from a power line and walk to a nearby temple to pump water. Babita's husband left them years ago and never returned.
Babita had always hoped for a better life—and recently, she found it in Vrindavan ka Gaurav, or "Glory of Vrindavan," a collective of women who make traditional hand embroidery, formed by Katie Walter BA '09. Says 33-year-old Babita through an interpreter, "Before, my son and I were struggling just to have food to eat, and I was unable to pay for his education. Now, I am able to pay for his school and we can afford to eat food that is good and nutritious."
Ever since my first visit, I knew I wanted to return and help. Katie Walter BA '09
Walter traveled to India for the first time in 2007, as a participant in Lewis & Clark's overseas study program. "Ever since my first visit, I knew I wanted to return and help," says Walter. Over the last two years, she has been helping impoverished Vrindavan women increase their incomes and become more economically independent. She has also been working to bring greater awareness to the environmental problems faced by the world's second most populated country.
South Asia is a long way to go for someone who grew up in blue-collar rural Ohio, seven miles from Bowling Green and a half hour from Toledo. As a teenager, Walter liked to listen to the music of sitarist Ravi Shankar and the Beatles. She grew interested in India and tracked down books on Eastern philosophy and culture.
Walter wanted to go to college, a first for her family, but was discouraged by her mother (an assistant manager at the local grocery store) and her stepfather (a forklift operator there), who argued for the working class and against the financial burden of student loans. Walter had many interests and no clear career goal, but she knew she wanted to live a different kind of life. She decided to move away after high school.
With her wanderlust, love of music, and strong work ethic, she ran record stores in Toledo, Phoenix, and Charlotte, North Carolina. She also studied yoga and completed yoga teacher training at an ashram near Charlottesville, Virginia, called Yogaville. When she helped a friend move to Portland, she ended up staying and soon fell in love with a man who urged her to follow her dreams to college. That was all she needed to hear.
"It had been 12 years since I'd been in school and my grades were not exemplary," says Walter, who chose Lewis & Clark because of its emphasis on helping students become global citizens. After proving her academic acumen at Portland Community College, Walter landed on the dean's list during her first year at Lewis & Clark. "I was attracted to international journalism because of my broad interest in the world and human stories," says Walter. "I ended up majoring in international affairs. It gave me a focus with room to grow into other areas."
It also awakened her then-dormant passion for India. During fall semester 2007, she and 19 other Lewis & Clark students lived in Delhi, Benares, and Bangalore, studying the culture and visiting nongovernmental organizations. "I'd read about Vrindavan beforehand and wanted to go there on that first trip," says Walter. "I was interested in the city's culture and religious mythology— as well as its ties to nature—in the face of its many environmental challenges." But she would have to wait almost a year to make it to Vrindavan.
Meanwhile, back in Portland, she volunteered with the Association for India's Development, reviewing funding proposals and organizing charity events. She also explored opportunities with NGOs in India. In August 2008, her then-boyfriend funded her second trip to India. After 20 hours in the air, 2 hours on a train, and a half hour in an auto rickshaw, she reached Vrindavan.
She served as a public relations intern at Friends of Vrindavan, an organization dedicated to preserving the city's sacred forests and ecology. "That experience gave me a greater knowledge of how the different layers of government work at the city level," says Walter. "I also became more aware of Vrindavan's environmental problems and how much they are at odds with the mythological view of the place."
Later, she volunteered at Food for Life Vrindavan, a social service NGO with a charity school. She visited some of the students and their families and wrote up profiles about them for potential supporters. "I felt so sad when I saw their living conditions," says Walter. "The average home is 10 feet by 10 feet with a little doubleburner gas stove and no furniture except a metal trunk for storing clothes, which also serves as a bed."
From their homes, many Vrindavan women make small traditional embroidered costumes called poshak, for Krishna deity statues, which shopkeepers collect and sell in the bazaars as souvenirs—at a 500 percent markup. "The women are grossly underpaid, due to their lack of refined skill and interaction with the market," says Walter.
I felt that there was an extreme injustice being done here, that almost every possible barrier was against these women being able to socially and economically survive, much less progress. Katie Walter BA '09
Many Vrindavan women have been widowed and dumped by their families or are ill and in debt, living with alcoholic husbands, or struggling as the sole provider. Seeing their lives hit Walter hard. "I felt that there was an extreme injustice being done here, that almost every possible barrier was against these women being able to socially and economically survive, much less progress."
She had to do something. Back in Portland, the day before her senior year at Lewis & Clark began, she started writing grant proposals. For her Glory of Vrindavan project, she received a $10,000 grant from philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis' 100 Projects for Peace initiative, as well as an additional $2,500 from Lewis & Clark. Then she won a Fulbright Research Grant for her India-based environmental project, "Between Religion and Economics: Establishing Ecological Development Discourse in Vrindavan." The project started in January of this year and will run through October. A Critical Language Enhancement Award, a Fulbright add-on, gave her four and a half months to learn Hindi in India before she started her research.
In May 2009, a week after she graduated, Walter took off to spend two months in India. She returned two months later and has been there ever since, except for a two-week break back to the States this spring. First she stayed in Delhi volunteering at Dastkar, an NGO that helps to improve the economic status of traditional craft artisans. Then she traveled by bus about 100 miles to Vrindavan, set herself up in a 16th-century women-only ashram, and started the artisans collective, in partnership with Food for Life Vrindavan. The organization already had an on-site sewing center, with about six women making school uniforms. From the families Walter had visited before, she gathered several more women; their numbers soon grew to 12, all working in the same room.
To Walter, it's the women's positive attitude that stands out the most. As Babita says, "We are blessed to live here in the land of Krishna and Radha [Krishna's consort]. Our life is very simple and there is always struggle. Nevertheless, we find ways to be happy."
While the women sew, they sing songs about Krishna and make jokes. "There's always a lot of laughing," says Walter. "I enjoy these moments with them, but I'm still treated as an esteemed guest. Boundaries break down little by little, but socioeconomic roles, such as caste, are very important in India, and I will never be just 'one of the ladies.' "
Katie is a paradigm of what transcultural education is all about. She stands as a wonderful example of how far curiosity, enterprise, and intelligent planning can take you. George Austin
At the collective the women are upgrading their skills, learning the intricate and ornate embroidery usually done by men for deity statues in the big temples. Colorful cotton threads tell the mythological stories of the town in vines and creepers, peacock feathers and flowers. Their work appears on covers for meditation cushions, bags and straps for yoga mats, and reusable shopping bags. The collective's most recent designs, based on a local paper stencil craft called sanjhi, adorn kitchen linens, some of the collective's newest products. Baby items are coming. Walter welcomes new product ideas and designs from the women, which "gives them a sense of pride and ownership in the project."
So does taking the products to market at the bazaars in Delhi twice a year, an outing the women look forward to. "It teaches them about competitive pricing and product quality," says Walter. So far (since July 2009), most of the products have been sold from the collective's website, with steady (and growing) orders from Yogaville, its biggest customer. The website's photos and bios of artisans let people know what their lives are like and inspire dialogue. The site invites customers to send photos of themselves when they make purchases.
In September 2009, participants in Lewis & Clark's overseas study program to India got to meet Walter and some of the women from the artisan collective. Says George Austin, leader of the fall program and an adjunct faculty member in the communication department, "For Katie to come back to India after her first trip in 2007 and do the work she's doing was really inspiring for the students. She's a role model for them." Sunil Kumar, professor of history at the University of Delhi and a coordinator for Lewis & Clark's overseas study program, adds, "Katie is a paradigm of what transcultural education is all about. She stands as a wonderful example of how far curiosity, enterprise, and intelligent planning can take you."
While overseeing the Glory of Vrindavan, Walter has also been serving as a liaison between NGOs and the city's stakeholders. She's working with the Yamuna Vrindavan Heritage Foundation to help clean up the river, and with the Braj-Vrindavan Heritage Alliance to help preserve their ancient temples and statues and to list the city as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Heritage Alliance and Friends of Vrindavan, with Walter's help, are also trying to save some of Vrindavan's few remaining, threatened indigenous groves.
This summer, as part of her Fulbright, she conducted a baseline survey—in four languages, using the latest-model iPad— with nearly 1,000 Vrindavan residents. "My study looks at how effective it is for environmental initiatives to use the Hindu mythological conception of the town as a means of advocating environmental stewardship." Her long-term goal is to compare the environmental attitudes in the city to those elsewhere in India. She'll give the results to Indian NGOs, governmental institutions, and international organizations wanting to improve India's natural and built heritage.
Meanwhile, the artisan collective is running pretty much on its own, its budget paying the women a living wage with reserves for eye exams, health concerns, and unexpected hardships. "It's good to see the ladies all working as a team, everyone training one another," says Walter, who will continue as its head of sales "from wherever I may be."
The people of Vrindavan are fortunate to have Katie contributing to their community. Dell Smith
When she returns to Portland this fall, she'll work with the Association for India's Development and study for the Graduate Record Examination. She's looking into graduate school for fall 2011, in South Asian studies at the University of Washington or the University of Michigan, and in the regional development program at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. She's also considering serving as an assistant leader for a Lewis & Clark overseas study program, and/or working on environmental issues with the Vrindavan Institute for Vaisnava Culture and Studies, a Krishna-focused Hindu organization.
"The people of Vrindavan are fortunate to have Katie contributing to their community," says Dell Smith, professor emeritus of health and physical education and the leader of the 2007 overseas study program to India. "Her strong intellectual curiosity, combined with a desire for human justice, motivates her to be an active player in making things right."
Says Walter, "Life is too tough here for many to spare a thought to anyone outside of their immediate families. But when foreigners offer practical service rather than exploit them or give quick pocket change, it makes a big impression on the people here. They feel safe enough to open their hearts and minds."
For someone who once wondered whether she'd ever go to college and couldn't decide what to do with her life, Walter has found a place where she not only thrives, but also makes a positive difference for others. "My focus is no smaller or larger than India itself," she says. "I'm fascinated with all of it."
Claire Sykes is a freelance writer in Portland. She loves the meditation cushion cover with the peacock feathers that she bought from Katie when the two of them met this spring—and she thinks of the women of Vrindavan.


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After getting swept by the Rockies, the Cubs will now travel to Arizona to finish up the road part of their schedule. The Cubs went into the Colorado series looking to put themselves in a good position to lose less than 100 games, unfortunately after the sweep it is starting to look very bleak. The Cubs will attempt to not only win their first road series against a western division team, but unbelievably their first road win against the division. They are currently 0-16 and according to Stats Inc no team has ever gone winless against one division on the road in a single season. It will be tough for the Cubs as we have seen there is basically no pitching left and the offense has been rather quiet, even after going to Colorado. Hope we see the Cubs play hard these last six games and maybe, just maybe win the last two series of the season.
Arizona Diamondbacks
Record: 78-78 (Home 38-37); 3rd in West
Runs Scored: 705 (5th NL)
Team ERA: 3.98 (10th NL)
Last 10: 6-4
Last Series: Lost two of three to the Giants
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Record: 59-97 (Road 22-56); 5th in Central
Runs Scored: 596 (14th NL)
Team ERA: 4.92 (14th NL)
Last 10: 1-9
Last Series: Swept by the Rockies
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Saturday, September 29 – 7:10 PM CST – WGN
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Cubs: Travis Wood (6-12, 4.23 ERA)
Diamondbacks: Ian Kennedy (14-11, 4.14 ERA)
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Cubs: Justin Germano (2-9, 5.65 ERA)
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A giant leap for space activities in Europe
The meeting will be chaired jointly by Parliamentary State Secretary and Federal Government Coordinator of Aerospace Policy, Peter Hintze, for the Competitiveness Council, and Maria van der Hoeven, the Netherlands' Minister of Economic Affairs and current chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level. It will take place in the Justus Lipsius building (the Headquarters of the Council of the European Union, Rue de la Loi, Brussels) from 09.30 to 10.45.
The outcome of this fourth meeting of the Space Council** will be presented at a press conference at the Justus Lipsius press centre, starting at about 11.15, in the presence of the two chairpersons. Günter Verheugen, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, and Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General, will also be taking part.
Media representatives wishing to attend the press conference are kindly requested to fill in the attached accreditation form.
On 19 May, ESA TV will transmit B-roll with pre-event footage covering the adoption of the European Space Policy. On 22 May, 'Europe by Satellite' will cover the press conference. For details, see http://television.esa.int.
* The European Space Policy (ESP) is a joint document of the European Commission and the Director General of ESA. It outlines the strategic guidelines for Europe's future activities in space, defining priorities and key actions. It will enable the European Union and ESA and their Member States to step up coordination of their activities and programmes and organise their respective space-related roles.
The ESP is accompanied by the preliminary elements of a European Space Programme. The European Space Programme, associated with the European Space Policy, is a planning and strategic tool that covers all of Europe's major space activities. It moreover supports the optimisation of public resources and skills in deciding and implementing the Space Policy.
** The 'Space Council' is the joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at ministerial level, as defined in the Framework Agreement between the European Community and ESA which entered into force in May 2004. It met for the first time in November 2004 and twice in 2005.
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Now, in the midst of chemo treatments for recurrent cancer, I seem to be suspended in a heavy mist that shrouds any remembrances or promises of joy. The veil of nausea, fatigue and chemo brain hangs heavy and thick, making it almost impossible for me to see through.
Now, in the midst of chemo treatments for recurrent cancer, I seem to be suspended in a heavy mist that shrouds any remembrances or promises of joy. The veil of nausea, fatigue and chemo brain hangs heavy and thick, making it almost impossible for me to see through.
I realize that I am so caught up in the side effects of treatment that I can't see the faintest spark of light and I know that staying in the dark isn't good. Life is without color here, replaced by the drudgery of putting one foot in front of the other. And it dawned on me that this is not how I want to spend the rest of my chemo time, because if I can't recapture my visions of the past and my dreams of the future, I could possibly be consumed by my difficult present.
Just before chemo restarted a few months ago, I was feeling almost back to normal and had energy like old times. I had made it through the worst of chemo, radiation and surgery and was finally getting back to myself. I was so relieved because I truly doubted that I'd ever feel good again. But I did.
And now I need to remember that I did and look back to when I felt well and picture the life I want to enjoy again– maybe even more than before. I know that visualization is a great tool to chart the path to a healthy future and I need to be diligent about using it and I can start this very minute. From picturing every piece of food I eat and drop of fluid I drink healing me, to my shower time washing away disease and cleansing me with health, to my favorite people and places, I have a lot of fertile material.
My memory and imagination needs to be shaken up though so that I will really believe that I can feel good again. Right now, I remember the sweet scent of new leaves and flowers, the symphony of spring bird songs, the warmth of the sun on my skin, my grandchildren's laughter and antics, salivating smells and tastes of food cooked outdoors, my little private backyard paradise, herons and gulls resting on the rocks in the cove just across the street, and the slowness of life's simple pleasures in this little harbor village.
I recall so clearly how much I love it all and how I'm looking forward to experiencing it again next spring. Just thinking about it right now, I am totally immersed in seeing, hearing, feeling, touching and tasting it all, even if it is from recall. And I find that I'm miraculously lifted out of the chemo haze and transported far beyond. I've actually left that heavy veil behind and escaped to a place where my past really can color my future. I feel peace of the highest kind and I can go back to it again, anytime I want.
Now that I know how good it feels, I'm going to return often, simply because I discovered that I can. I also realize that the current season is filled with its own miracles and blessings if I just open my door and eyes. And if I do, I bet that before I know it, the chemo will be finished and I'll be right back to where I was – feeling like my old self – living and loving my life again.
Joyce Rothman, of Massachusetts, blogs about her experience with cancer and cancer treatment. To read more, visit her blog at http://makingsenseofitall.joycerothman.com.


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Denizens of Valiancy[edit | edit source]
|There it was, on the other side of the lake, a form that seemed to be made entirely of light. Just the sight of it seemed to calm me where I stood.
|—journal of Geth Harold, traveling writer.
Personality[edit | edit source]
A denizen of valiancy is what would be called good in the eyes of most living beings. They will protect those who cannot do so for themselves in a heartbeat, and punish those who commit an evil act even faster. When it comes to civilization they are often found as guardsmen or members of church clergies, seeing as these position are most fitting for their particular behavior.
Physical Description[edit | edit source]
A denizen of valiancy would appear as a human if it weren't for the fact that their skin glows with a bright white light at all times. They are able to dim this light, but never to the point that it has vanished. A denizen of valiancy stands 6'1" tall on average and weighs anywhere from 120 to 200 lbs.
Relations[edit | edit source]
Denizens of valiancy will get along with other beings incredibly well, unless of course the other being's race has been attacking or enslaving others, in which case, a denizen can be very prejudiced.
Alignment[edit | edit source]
A denizen of valiancy is always good, no matter what.
Lands[edit | edit source]
A denizen of valiancy will always call the place that they sleep 'home', and as long as they keep coming back to that same location to sleep, they will have an emotional attachment to that place. They have no problem leaving that place behind though, but the more nights they spent there, the sadder they would be when they leave. Denizens of valiancy originate on the Positive Energy Plane.
Religion[edit | edit source]
Denizens of valiancy don't worship any particular god as an entire race.
Language[edit | edit source]
A denizen of valiancy will learn the languages that would allow them to help the most.
Names[edit | edit source]
Denizen of valiancy names are given by the mother of the child unless the mother is unable to do so, in which case the father or closest relative will give the child a name. A denizen will never lie about his name.
Racial Traits[edit | edit source]
- -2 Constitution, +10 Intelligence, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma.
- Outsider (Native)
- Medium
- Denizen of valiancy base land speed is 30 feet.
- A denizen of valiancy is proficient with light martial weapons and light armor.
- Darkvision out to 60 feet.
- A denizen of valiancy is always good.
- Due to a denizen of valiancy's glowing skin they receive a −1 to all hide checks unless every piece of skin is covered.
- A denizen of valiancy's skin provides illumination out to 30 feet and shadowy illumination out to 60 feet at its brightest.
- Racial Hit Die: A denizen of valiancy begins with three levels of outsider, which provide 3d8 Hit Dice, a base attack bonus of +3, and base saving throw bonuses of Fort +3, Ref +3, and Will +3.
- Racial Skills: A denizen of valiancy's levels in outsider give it skill points equal to 6 x (8 + Int modifier). Its class skills are Listen, Search, and Spot.
- Racial Feats: A denizen of valiancy receives two feats because of its levels in outsider.
- Calming (Ex): A denizen of valiancy is entitled to attempt a diplomacy check with a given being at any given time if the goal of talking is to try and talk the other being down and the denizen knows the language of the being. Additionally, when rushing a diplomacy check, the denizen only takes a −5 penalty to the check.
- Automatic Languages: Common.
- Bonus Languages: Any (other than secret languages such as Druidic). See the Speak Language skill.
- Favored Class: Wizard
- Level Adjustment: +Level Adjustment::0
- Effective Character Level: Effective Character Level::3
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Ruskin Overview | Images & Documents
The Ruskin Cooperative Association (RCA) was established in Dickson County in 1894. Founded when publisher Julius Wayland moved his socialist weekly, The Coming Nation, from Versailles, Indiana, the colony was named for famed English social critic John Ruskin. Intended to be a cooperative commonwealth, workers were paid in scrip which could be exchanged for goods or labor. In addition to agricultural endeavors, Ruskin operated a canning factory and produced goods as diverse as suspenders and chewing gum.
When Wayland left the community after only one year, factionalism began to erode the Ruskin experiment. The colony was soon embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the original settlers and newer members, and the distracted colonists were unable to resolve key issues including women's rights and education. Although Wayland and early leader Isaac Broome had strongly promoted education as the basis of society, the plans for a "Ruskin College of the New Economy" were never realized. By 1899, only five years after its inception, the cooperative was bankrupt.
During its brief existence the "Ruskin Experiment" achieved international notoriety, but, in reality, the RCA began to unravel quickly. Most residents simply would not or could not keep pace with the ideological and intellectual advancement envisioned by the founders. Factors such as the loss of charismatic leader Julius Wayland, the financial panic of 1893, and a series of ill-advised fiscal choices undermined the Utopian dream.
In 1899 a few Ruskinites tried to revive the colony by removing its remaining assets and a few loyal members to Georgia to make a fresh start, but, after a brief struggle, the new community soon sputtered out as well. Isaac Broome later complained that the Ruskinites would rather "smoke, gossip, and spit tobacco" than improve their minds.
By 1897, considered the community's zenith, there were 250 residents, from 32 states and several foreign countries; they had assets of $100,000, 1,800 acres of land, and 75 buildings; they were a diverse commercial enterprise:
- a farm
- a grist mill
- a steam laundry
- a cannery
- a machine shop, a café
- a bakery
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COLUMBUS – Forget for a moment that the Columbus Crew's 30 points put them seven behind fifth-place D.C. United for the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and six back of Montreal.
The numbers to keep an eye on as the Crew gobble up the games-in-hand over the next few weeks are points per game and goals per game.
Sunday's 2-2 draw at Houston helped the latter category that is the first tiebreaker, but hurt the former.
The Crew (8-8-6) remain within striking distance of third-place Houston and Chicago (41 points) because they have played three fewer than the Dynamo and two fewer than the Fire.
WATCH: Crew draw vs. Houston
Also, D.C. United has played one more match and Montreal five more than the Crew.
But based on the Crew's 1.36 points per game, only Montreal (1.33) has a worse average of the four teams directly above them: Chicago is at 1.71 followed by Houston (1.64) and D.C. (1.61).
The Crew are finished with Houston for the season after a pair of ties, but they play Chicago, D.C. and Montreal one more time each.
If they finish equal in points with any of them the first tiebreaker employed this season is goals scored. And that's not good for the Crew, who have the fewest goals (23 goals in 22 games) of all the teams currently vying for that final playoff spot.
"That's how it is," Crew coach Robert Warzycha said to MLSsoccer.com recently. "We don't have to agree with [the tiebreaker rule] but that's what it is going to be. We have to score more goals."
The second tiebreaker is goal differential. The Crew sit with a -1 differential, with Montreal trailing (-5). Houston (8), D.C (7) and Chicago (4).
Higuain to the rescue
If the Crew are going to make up ground in the final 12 matches new Designated Player Federico Higuain could be the difference. The Argentine forward (above, center) assisted on Eddie Gaven's goal, set up several other opportunities and almost snuck in a free kick, all in 45 minutes of his debut.
"He was very active, all over the field making runs," midfielder Eddie Gaven told MLSsoccer.com by phone after the match. "That's what we need from our forwards. He's going to be a huge asset for us."
Gaven's tribute to Urso
Immediately after scoring, Gaven kissed the No.15 patch on his jersey that honors rookie midfielder Kirk Urso, who passed away Aug. 5.
"That was the very first thing that came to my mind," Gaven said. "That was just wishing Kirk was out there with us. He's in our hearts obviously. We're playing every game this season for him."


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The 28-year-old Papua New Guinea international played in the opening six matches of the 2014 First Utility Super League after making the move to Headingley from Wakefield but has been forced him to sit out the Rhinos' last two games.
Leeds chief executive Gary Hetherington said: "Paul is desperately disappointed because he feels fit and healthy but, after tests and consultation with a specialist, he has been advised that he needs a course of medication.
"He will not be able to play whilst taking this medication until he has made a full recovery. This process is expected to be about 12 weeks, but he will be monitored on a monthly basis."
Aiton said: "I'm so enjoying being part of the Rhinos team and really disappointed I will be out for so long. But I'll do all I have to and be back raring to go."
The loss of Aiton is the second major blow to hit the Rhinos in a week after England second row forward Jamie Jones-Buchanan was ruled out for up to three months with a torn bicep.
It is likely to mean an extended run at hooker for Rob Burrow, who has been sharing the role with Aiton this season.
Leeds coach Brian McDermott said: "Paul had settled in really well so to be losing him and Jamie Jones-Buchanan for the next three months is a blow but at least they'll both come back at a crucial time of the season pretty fresh and fit."
Meanwhile, Leeds have confirmed that their glamour Tetley's Challenge Cup fifth-round tie against St Helens will be played at Headingley on Saturday, April 26, with a 2.3 0pm kick-off.
Promotion-chasing Leeds Carnegie, who share the Headingley stadium with the Rhinos, agreed to bring forward their final home Championship match of the season against Cornish Pirates to Friday, April 25, to enable the televised cup tie to go ahead.
Carnegie chairman Sir Ian McGeechan said: "Obviously this is a huge game for the Rhinos and the stadium with it being televised live on the BBC. When we received the request we were happy to work with the RFU and Cornish Pirates to move our fixture and hopefully it will make for a great weekend of rugby at Headingley Carnegie."


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The editor of OutreachNC magazine recently stayed with us and requested our version of this popular recipe. We hope you enjoy it as much as she did!
- 1-2 long loaves of French Bread, sliced at a diagonal
- Orange marmalade (our favorite is Mackays, imported from Scotland and made with champagne)
- 1/2 to 1 Package of Cream Cheese, softened
- 4 large eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- Orange zest to taste
- Melted butter for brushing
- Confectioners sugar for dusting
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Spray two 11"x17" metal baking pans with cooking spray.
- Using 2 adjacent pieces of the bread per person, lay each pair open like a book
- Spread 1 piece with softened cream cheese
- Spread the opposite piece with orange marmalade (This part reminds me of making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as a kid!)
- Press the two pieces together firmly but gently enough that the filling doesn't ooze out
- Repeat for 8 "sandwiches"
- Whisk together the eggs, milk and orange zest.
- Dip each "sandwich" in the egg mixture, turning to coat
- Place in prepared pan so they don't touch one another
- Brush with melted butter
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
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Michael H. Bloch, M.D., M.S. graduated from Yale School of Medicine and completed his child and adult psychiatry training at Yale. He is currently serving as chief resident at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. His research interests focus on studying Tourette syndrome (TS), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and trichotillomania (TTM) across the lifespan. His research focuses on developing better treatments for children and adults with these conditions and examining predictors of long-term outcome with an emphasis on neuroimaging. Dr. Bloch sees children with TS, OCD and TTM as part of the Yale Child Study Center TS/OCD clinic and adults with the same conditions at the Yale OCD Research Clinic. He is also the Assistant Unit Chief at the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU). The CNRU is a comprehensive 12-bed inpatient unit located in the Connecticut Mental Health Center that cares for patients enrolled in several psychiatric research protocols. Please see weblinks below for more information about these clinics.
Dr. Bloch is also the associate training director of the Child Study Center's innovative psychiatry residency program. The Solnit Integrated Program provides psychiatrists-in-training with the opportunity to integrate general, child and research psychiatry across all stages of their career and will be a major pathway by which the next generation of academic leaders in child psychiatry are developed
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How do Artists Illustrate the Passage of Time? by Karen Archey
Alan Michael, 'Mood 8', (2010)
Karen Archey writes about art representing the passage of time in MAP magazine:
There are certain artists whose works exist in multiple temporalities, and challenge the notion of temporality itself. They exhibit a sensitivity to an evolving contemporary condition defined by this recently developed shift in pace. such work operates under multiple, connected working methods, each containing at least two temporalities: the first being the specific cultural moment in which it is made, evidenced by the marks and mediums endemic to its time; the subsequent moment being that in which the work is accessed or activated by its viewer. But what happens when these temporalities are complicated, or even masked? Is it possible for an artwork to possess multiple meanings through different activation points in time, or preserve a singular meaning that is timeless?
Consider Andy Warhol's 'Time Capsules' project, an archive of the artist's everyday accruals from 1974 to his death in 1987. A set of 612 dated cardboard boxes containing banalities ranging from daily newspapers, correspondence, and financial records to gifts and refuse, Warhol's 'Time Capsules' reimagine the impetus of the first time capsule realised in 1939 by Westinghouse Corporation for new York's World Fair. As per the popular understanding of the time capsule, the Westinghouse version combined and preserved items considered emblematic of their historical moment: microfilaments, bank notes, recorded messages from Albert Einstein, commonly used textiles, etc. somewhat perversely, the boxes containing Warhol's cast offs have since been lovingly catalogued, preserved and photographed by museum archivists. Yet Warhol presciently understood that it was the near-invisible matter most familiar to us that may most distinctly define a given historical moment, perhaps more so than whatever is ceremoniously deemed significant at the time. Warhol's nonchalantly collected materials ...
Our Daily Code
Adam Rothstein's Rhizome News essay City of QR Codes has inspired a new Tumblr, Our Daily Code:
Artist Profile: James Howard
data-encrypt-127.5x103, (2011)
Images in online scams and phishing schemes can seem as artificially generated as the text — like botnet generated folk art. But there is a human hand at work. What do you think is the human element that draws people into these schemes?
People are like machines - their brains react to temptation like a computer does. Most people are able to recognise a scam, but if someone pulls the right string, sooner or later all that subconscious stuff inside you is going to lead you down the wrong path. Scams get people by playing on insecurities, desires, fears, greed, whatever - it's uncontrollable and causes one in a thousand people to make a snap decision and pay up.
What do you consider the visual clues of this kind of kitsch of deception? Any interesting patterns or trends you've spotted over the years of collecting examples?
Squashed grinning businessmen looking into fisheye lenses, sunsets over serene oceans, happy families, sexy nurses- it's an endless and totally recognisable global visual language. There's a gruesome image of someone hooked up to a life support machine that keeps landing in my junk-mail folder these days -it always comes from a new person, with a different story every time.
Your installation "Black Money" is based a well known email scam — displaying what is said to be millions of dollars dyed black to go through customs, alongside call cards offering chemicals for sale which could clean the cash. When I look at the sort of unboxing video that was posted to DailyMotion, the site suggests I might also like videos with titles like "Make $100,000 Now" and "How to Win the Lotto." Did anyone email cleaningmoneyATgmail.com looking to clean some dirty dollars with "SSD solution"?
Loads of people contacted ...
Kowloon Walled City Lives On in Videogames
1989 German documentary on Kowloon Walled City (English subtitles, Part 1 of 4)
In Kill Screen, Michelle Young writes about Kowloon Walled City as an inspiration for game level designers. The fortress-like Hong Kong settlement once contained 35,000 residents within its 6.5-acre enclosed space. A labyrinth of alleyways, staircases, and 250 sq ft apartments; much of it poorly lit makeshift spaces with unstable construction; it was also largely a lawless enclave with thriving drug trade, mafia, and other black market activities. It was demolished in 1993:
Often, aspects of Kowloon's architecture and environment are used to impart a sense of repression, confusion, or loss. In videogames, the mafia and undercurrent of illicit activity provided ideal storylines amidst dank and mysterious backdrops. The cramped businesses in the inner alleys, and the jumbled exteriors of Kowloon, gave videogame designers a rich visual vocabulary.
The characteristic that most set Kowloon Walled City apart from other slums was its high-rise, skyscraper form. Videogame design has capitalized on the city's verticality. In the opening sequence of Shenmue II, we are transported between the normalized architecture of Hong Kong to Kowloon and enter the city as if falling upside-down from the sky into the depths of the Walled City. The distance between Hong Kong proper and Kowloon is greatly exaggerated with hills and wide plains separating the two, likely an attempt to emphasize Kowloon's "Otherness."
Kowloon was an anomaly in modern urban construction not only for its organic formation, but also for its reversal of standard building aspects: interior versus exterior, street versus roofs. Its ad-hoc construction engendered a maze of narrow alleys and staircases. Think of single apartment units being stacked over time like Jenga pieces—except that the façades don't have to be match or be in-line with ...
Cole Stryker, Author of "Epic Win for Anonymous" on Interior Semiotics, Context Collapse, and "You Rage You Lose"
Still from Natacha Stolz's Interior Semiotics
Last year, an anonymous Rhizome contributer interviewed Natacha Stolz regarding her performance Interior Semiotics, the video documentation of which eventually found its way on 4Chan:
What is it that made, and is still making, [4chan users] so angry about Stolz's performance? The video contains graphic material, but in the age of Goatse, and Tubgirl, explicitness alone cannot shock or offend most people—especially internet trolls. Rather, it was the label on it—art—and the work's perceived demographic—hipsters—that crawled under people's skin. Many on the internet seem as angry with the audience—for sitting there, for clapping—as they are with the performance itself. Whether or not you like Stolz's piece may be a matter of personal taste, but taste is never strictly personal. It stands at a nexus of hot-blooded issues; issues relating to class, status, accessibility, belonging and not belonging. Taste necessarily begs the question not just of how we assign value to things, but also of who should be doing the assigning. The hipster has come to epitomize for many what's seen to be the ridiculousness of taste; and so it struck people who hated Interior Semiotics as no mere coincidence that many audience members in the video were punked out, or gothed up, or otherwise retrofitted.
A lot of the comments on the video fall into two categories: comments addressing the definition, or ideal definition, of art, and comments addressing the nature of hipsters. The latter tend to be violent expressions of a kind of inchoate rage.
Recently I asked my friend Cole Stryker, author of Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web for his take on the trolling of the artist:


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The covers and synopses for the three Doctor Who novels scheduled for release this September have been revealed!
The Krillitane Storm - by Christopher Cooper
"When the TARDIS materialises in medieval Worcester, the Doctor finds the city seemingly deserted. He soon discovers its population are living in a state of terror, afraid to leave their homes after dark, for fear of meeting their doom at the hands of the legendary Devil's Huntsman.
For months, people have been disappearing, and the Sheriff has imposed a strict curfew across the city, his militia maintaining control over the superstitious populace with a firm hand, closing the city to outsiders. Is it fear of attack from beyond the city walls that drives him or the threat closer to home? Or does the Sheriff have something to hide?
After a terrifying encounter with a deadly Krillitane, the Doctor realises the city has good reason to be scared."
Autonomy - by Daniel Blythe
"Hyperville is 2013's top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex – a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can shop, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, Winterland, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting – and dangerous...
What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control?
For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it's ready, and it's deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience..."
The Taking of Chelsea 426 - by David Llewellyn
"The Chelsea Flower Show – Hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem.
As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Why is shopkeeper Mr Pemberton acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce's terrible secret?
They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they're not here to arrange flowers..."
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Leonardo DiCaprio was photographed earlier this week with Toni Garrn in the French Alps. I don't know how happy he is about getting papped, especially right now, when the impression he's trying to leave with Academy voters is that he's always been The One – the one who respects the art, the one who commits to the best work, the one who tries to honour the craft.
Or maybe he's just given up. Maybe he's just like…alright, alright, alright, you can have it.
Somehow I doubt that.
Because he also gave an interview on CBS that aired yesterday and willingly answered questions about his love life. What does he look for in a girlfriend?
The Victoria's Secret catalogue?
Well, yes, but that's not what he wants you to hear. He wants you think it could be you:
"Humility, a sense of humour and not a lot of drama."
I believe the "not a lot of drama" part. This is why he stays away from actresses. As for humility and a sense of humour – is that what sets one model apart from the other? Like, he only dates models, but also only the funny ones? It's a very, very narrow field we're dealing with here.
And what about marriage?
During an Oscar campaign, an unapologetic pussy hunter can't possibly admit to never wanting to get married.
"(Marriage) is going to happen when it's going to happen. I'm just gonna let it happen naturally."
Translation: it's never going to happen, but I need the MiniVan Majority to believe they might have a chance. George Clooney pulls this card out once in a while too.
The best part of the interview happens at the top, when Gayle King says that he's not the kind of celebrity who would wear a paper bag over his head – a reference, presumably, to Shia LaBeouf.
Maybe not a bag, but what about this?
This is him too:
And sometimes he tries to find a dumpster.


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Amongst other things, Novation are famed for making high-quality MIDI controllers that integrate flawlessy into the modern studio or live set-up, thanks to their superb automatic mapping software. This probably explains why Novation keyboards are so popular, with plenty of professionals and home studio owners favouring their products over competitors'.
If you're in the market for a MIDI controller keyboard, then you're probably considering a Novation, but with SL MkII, Impulse and Launchkey ranges to choose from, what's the difference between them and which will best suit your requirements? As I've used all of them before, I've decided to compile this article in order to help answer these questions and hopefully help you in your quest to find your perfect controller.


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Instructions: Find the adverbs in the following sentences, tell what word they modify, and what they tell us. Remember that adverbs tell us how, when, where, why and modify the verb. They also can shift in a sentence. Adverbs that tell us how much modify adjectives or other adverbs. These adverbs must come before the word they modify.
1. Haven't we often stopped here before?
2. Boyd does his work faithfully and carefully.
3. My children sometimes say that I have always been highly critical.
4. Yesterday Jim came by once or twice.
5. The baby lay there very safely in the crib.
6. Today the dog seemed rather restless.
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1. n't (when/how), often (when), here, (where), before, (when). They all modify the verb have stopped.
2. faithfully (how), carefully (how). They both modify the verb does.
3. sometimes (when), always (when), highly (how much). Sometimes modifies the verb say. Always modifies the verb have been. Highly modifies the adjective critical.
4. yesterday (when), by, (where), once (when), twice (when). They all modify the verb came.
5. there (where), very (how much), safely (how). There and safely modify the verb lay. Very modifies the adverb safely.
6. today (when), rather (how much). Today modifies the verb seemed. Rather modifies the adjective restless.
For your convenience, all of our lessons are available on our website in our lesson archive at http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html.


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It's not even October and children's Halloween costumes are already brewing up controversy.
Earlier this week, some parents complained to Walmart when they spotted a Naughty Leopard costume for toddlers on a store shelf in Oregon. While the actual costume was sweet with a dress and set of furry ears, parents felt the name was suggestive and inappropriate for kids.
Walmart immediately pulled the costume from store shelves and its online site.
"It was never our intention to offend anyone and we apologize to any customers who may have been offended by the name of the costume," Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt told KATU-TV, Portland, Ore.
Halloween costumes for kids have become more and more inappropriate over the past few years. The girls' costumes are getting skimpier and the boys' scarier—and many are just downright tasteless. A pimp costume for a 6-year-old boy? A skimpy French maid dress for tweens? A Woopie Cushion costume for babies? Take a look at some of the bad kids costumes below. These make the Naughty Leopard look tame.


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Reindeer Hides are extremely versatile with fantastic thermal properties, making them perfect as a throw or seat cover for inside and outside your home. Many of our customers are using Reindeer hides for a variety of practical situations including camping, caravanning, festivals, barbeque, as throws and tent lining.
Our Siberian Reindeer Hides are sourced from the Arctic Tundra regions of Siberia and are a Bi Product of the food industry. Reindeer farming is a modern livelihood that is passed down through the generations. It is in tune with nature's cycle and provides a living for large number of people in the harsh north of Finland & Siberia. In many villages Reindeer Farming is the number one employer and the Nomadic Nenets still use every part of the reindeer for food, clothing and decoration.
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The Peyote/Water Bird is not a Southwest tradition, but one of the Plains Indians. The Peyote Bird is connected with lightning, thunder and visions. Those who dream of the thunder beings will become Heyokas, those who do things backwards, upside down, or opposite. This is a Lakota way of being. It is part of the medicine of the Heyoka to remind us that we should not take ourselves too seriously - that's why Heyoka is often translated as the "sacred clown".
The Thunderbird is a cross-cultural symbol of the Southwest, Plains and Pacific Northwest tribes as well as in the non-Native world. Much is written about the origin of the symbol and its significance. It has been suggested by some that the symbol was borrowed by Native American artisans from the white man's medal dies. Others claim the Thunderbird has always lived in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. There, carved totem poles are often topped with a Thunderbird with outstretched wings. Looking at a Thunderbird, it is easy to see why it symbolizes power, strength and nobility.
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This tender chuck roast makes two meals. Most of the meat is sliced and served with onion gravy, accompanied by egg noodles, and the rest gets shredded and saved for a warm beef salad .
You might want to round out the first meal with a green salad or sautéed spinach.
- Yield
- Makes 4 servings (with leftovers) or 6 servings (without leftovers)
- Active Time
- 40 min
- Total Time
- 4 3/4 hr
- 4 pounds boneless beef chuck roast
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 pounds onions (4 to 6 medium), halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
- 2 large garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme or 1/4 teaspoon dried, crumbled
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary or 1/4 teaspoon dried, crumbled
- 1 1/2 cups dry white wine
- 1 cup water
- Accompaniment: 1/2 pound egg noodles, boiled until al dente
- Garnish: chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 325°F.
- Pat beef dry and rub all over with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Heat oil in an ovenproof 5-quart wide heavy pot over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and brown beef on all sides, about 15 minutes total. Transfer beef to a plate.
- Add onions to pot and sauté over moderately high heat, stirring frequently, until pale golden, about 10 minutes. Add garlic, tomato paste, thyme, rosemary, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Add wine and water and bring to a boil. Return beef to pot, then cover tightly and braise in oven, turning once after 1 hour, until beef is very tender, 2 1/2 to 3 hours total.
- Let beef stand, uncovered, in onion sauce about 30 minutes.
- If reserving some meat for beef salad , cut off one third of roast, and, when cool enough to handle, shred and toss with 3/4 cup onion sauce. Cool completely, uncovered, then chill in an airtight container.
- While shredded beef cools, preheat oven to 350°F and transfer remaining beef to a cutting board and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Season with salt and pepper and return beef to sauce. Reheat, covered, 20 minutes.
Cooks' note:
Beef can be braised, sliced, and shredded, then returned separately to sauce 5 days ahead. Cool completely, uncovered, then chill, covered. Reheat sliced beef and onion sauce in pot, covered, or an ovenproof serving dish covered with foil in a 350°F oven about 30 minutes.


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Harengus Minor, Bahamensis: The Pilchard; Arbor, Populi nigrae foliis, fructu reni-formi mono-spermo, pp. 24-T 24
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|Bear in the Big Blue House
|February 28, 1999
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Bear and Tutter are trying to have a fun game of checkers, while Ojo and Treelo are having their own fun playing. For some reason, though, everyone seems to be talking about the toilet and the bathroom. It all starts when Tutter needs to use the toilet during his game of checkers with Bear, but doesn't want to leave the checkers game. Bear assures him it will still be waiting for him. Tutter uses the bathroom and then washes his hands, stating that his Grandma Flutter taught him to. Later, Ojo has an accident and is very embarrassed, but Bear lets her know it's okay --- accidents can happen to anyone. When Pip and Pop hear about the day's events, they invite everyone to join their secret club --- The Mystic Order of the Toileteers. It's for everyone who uses, or is going to use the potty. In the Shadow segment, Shadow introduces a song with some new twists on the phrases "party party" and "potty training."
- Potty Chair
- Potty Potty
- The Toileteers
- This episode was adapted in book form in 2000.
- The Toileteers is a parody of Disney's Mouseketeers.
- Tutter's toilet is within just a few mouse feet of the hole itself.
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February 2012
From the Editor One of the most important tasks performed by our presbyteries is their oversight of the preparation of men for the ministry of the gospel. From taking men under care, through licensing them to preach, to the goal of ordaining them, presbyteries take action under the guidance of their committees on candidates and credentials. In the local church the session seeks to recognize and encourage gifted men to pursue this calling. At a denominational level the general assembly has charged the Committee on Christian Education, under whose over sight this journal functions, with the task of facilitating this important work through its Subcommittee on Ministerial Training. This subcommittee oversees programs such as the Ministerial Training Institute of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (MTIOPC), providing training supplementary to seminary to candidates and ministers; summer and year-long internships; the Timothy Conference to challenge young Orthodox Presbyterian men in their late high school and early college years, aged sixteen to twenty-one years, to consider the gospel ministry as God's calling for their life; and the OP Summer Institute to give a taste of ministry in the OPC to men in late college and early seminary through an intensive time of reflection and conversation.
The lead article this month is Jim Gidley's informative piece, "Why a Candidates and Credentials Conference?" given at the inaugural Candidates and Credentials Conference at the offices of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, on August 8–9, 2005.
Next up, Ryan McGraw encourages men preparing for ordination exams as one who has been through the ordeal in the PCA in "How to Prepare Spiritually for Ordination Exams."
I offer thoughts on the temptations of young theologians entering ministry in our heady tradition of a "learned ministry."
PCA Pastor Charlie Wingard reviews a fascinating new book giving a personal view of the brilliant historian Elizabeth (Betsey) Fox-Genovese from the perspective of her equally brilliant husband Eugene. Their journey from Marxism to Catholicism is instructive.
Finally, this month's poem "On the Road" by the editor was written during the Summer Institute at Shiloh Retreat in Jefferson, New Hampshire.
Blessings in the Lamb,
From the Archives "MINISTERIAL TRAINING"
Ordained Servant exists to help encourage, inform, and equip church officers for faithful, effective, and God glorifying ministry in the visible church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Its primary audience is ministers, elders, and deacons of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, as well as interested officers from other Presbyterian and Reformed churches. Through high quality editorials, articles, and book reviews we endeavor to stimulate clear thinking and the consistent practice of historic, confessional Presbyterianism.
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The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is directed by Carol Cymbala, the wife of Pastor Jim Cymbala. The 270-voice choir, which for the most part is composed of vocally untrained church members, has recorded three videos, three DVDs and numerous albums, winning five Dove Awards and six Grammy Awards. Their concert venues in New York City have included Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Madison Square Garden Theater. They also had the honor of singing at the Billy Graham Crusades that were held in New York City's Central Park and Flushing Meadows Park. The choir sang at the 2012 Presidential inauguration in Washington, DC before an estimated viewing audience of 1 billion people. The recognition that the choir has received has provided them with an open door for ministry in presenting the gospel message through music to people all over the world.
But the choir was not always such a large ensemble. It actually began with nine people in the mid-1970s. Soon the small choir became a vital part of the worship services of The Brooklyn Tabernacle. In the early 1980s Carol felt a desire to make a first recording. When she had trouble finding enough material, Carol began to write songs herself. The funds for the production of the first choir recording were raised by the choir members themselves who pre-sold albums to their friends and family members. The choir ended up raising enough funds to cover the rental of a large studio for one night, during which all of the sound tracks, vocals, and solos had to be recorded. What a joy it was for those early choir members to distribute that first album to their friends and loved ones!
After nearly thirty years of recordings and live performances, Carol and the choir continue to rely on the Lord for his grace and direction in their ministry. The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is a highly unlikely group of people, a mixture of ethnic and economic backgrounds, in the heart of a city synonymous with coldness and decay. Made up of doctors, attorneys and former street people, nurses and ex-crack addicts, the choir is a unique cross section of humanity. Pastor Cymbala explains: "None of us would have met if it weren't for Christ. Our backgrounds are just too diverse. But all of us have one thing in common: we have all been lifted up and changed by the power of Jesus Christ. So the choir sings, not about a mere theological doctrine, but about what has happened to them. It's not just the lyrics of a song; it's a reality to each of them." Starting each rehearsal with prayer reinforces that principle as the choir asks the Lord to bless their music and anoint their songs for the services.
"I just want to see people drawn to Jesus Christ," Carol Cymbala says, "I want the music to be the arrow that points them to him."


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The title wasn't mistyped. Megan Leavey is a (former) Marine. She was a dog handler. During a deployment to Afghanistan, she lost both of her legs, but her dog is unharmed. The dog is now ready for retirement… but the Corps isn't sending him to be with some new owner.
This is a relatively new story.
On deployment number two to Afg, we had several of these dynamic duo teams that made a big difference. Well one day one of those teams was attacked by an IED. The Marine lost both legs. The dogs condition unknown. The Marine was medivacd to a shock trauma unit where he was saved and sedated. Guess what the first question to the surgeons was just before they put him under? How is my dog?
This where I came in at about 0100 in the morning I was involved in the fight still in our Command Center when I got a radio call asking how the dog was. After confirming a couple times we sent the radio traffic that the dog made it through without s=a (sic) scratch. The wounded Marine was already heavily sedated and flown to Germany, then the States. The clock started. After the fight was completed we began devising a savvy plan that only Marines can to have that dog at the Marines bedside when he came out of surgery. I had about 72ish hours. Through some cigar trading and care package donating, the dog, was on an Air Force aircraft to the States just behind the Marine. I would have paid to have seen the Marines face when he woke up from surgery and the fist thing he saw was his loyal K9 Marine waiting for him by his bed.
Unfortunately for Sergeant Rex, their intentions involve him being put down. Fortunately for Cpl. Leavey, we have the interwebs! Spread it far, spread it wide. Maybe with enough pressure, they'll send the dog where he needs to be. Our Marines don't get put down when they get home. He should be no different.


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BioBoard/Documentation/PC Software
This is the PC-side software for the BioBoard, an arduino shield that connects to a set of sensors that allows monitoring of several different, biologically relevant parameters in luquid microbial cultures, such as bacterial or yeast fermentation. The parameters we settled on were temperature, biomass / cell density, acidity (pH), and oxygen levels.
The PC software has two parts:
The logging daemon receives data from the Arduino and logs it to a database. The Arduino can be connected either directly over USB or, if you have an Ethnernet Shield, over a local network or the Internet.
The web application lets you create new projects and view graphs of the logged data.
Software setup[edit]
To get started, you should first install the software. There is an installation guide on the web app's github page (scroll down to find it). Right now the installation guide is specific to Ubuntu Linux, though it should work for Debian and other Debian-based Linux distributions as well. The software is written in Ruby, so it should run on other operating systems such as Windows and OS X, though we are still working on the installation guides for these.
After verifying that everything works, you should create a new project in the web app. Make sure the web app is running (as per the install guide), point your web-browser to http://localhost:3000/ and click the "Start a new project!"-button. Name the project by filling out the "<give your project a name>" textbox.
Now, you need to ensure that the project name as specified in the Arduino sketch is the same as the name of your project. To change the name in the Arduino sketch you need to find the line where the ProjectName" variable is assigned a string, and change that string to the project name. The only constraint is that the name cannot contain any exclamation marks. Remember to upload your sketch to the Arduino if you change it.
Connecting the BioBoard[edit]
There are two ways of connecting the BioBoard to the log server. One is to connect the Arduino to the computer running the logserver using USB. The other is to use an Arduino Ethernet Shield to connect over a local network or the Internet. First of all, make sure the log server is running, as described in the installation guide.
Connecting using USB[edit]
When using USB, you need to start an additional serial forwarder program that reads the data from the connected Arduino and sends it to the log server. This step will be eliminated in future versions of the software. The serial forwarder is included with the log server. After starting the log server, make sure the baud rate is set to 19200:
sudo stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 19200
then do:
cd BioBoardLogServer/
and let it run for as long as the log server runs. If your Arduino is not connected at /dev/ttyUSB0, then you need to change this in the serial_forwarder.rb program and in the above command.
Now connect the BioBoard to the USB port of the computer running the log server and hit the reset button on the Arduino. The Arduino will immediately start sending data from the connected probes and sending it the log server which will log the data in thedatabase.
Connecting using the Ethernet Shield[edit]
The code for using the Ethernet Shield has not been integrated with the rest of the Arduino code yet, but if you've used an Ethernet Shield before it should be fairly straight-forward. Instead of sending data over the serial connection, you need to modify the program to connect using TCP on port 9090 to the computer where the log server is running and send the data over that connection.
Using the software[edit]
Now you are ready to view the graphs generated from the probe data. If you still have the page for your new project loaded in the browser, simply hit the browser refresh button, otherwise go to http://localhost:3000/ and click the project name under "Existing projects".
You should now see your graphs, one for each probe. You can toggle the graphs on and off. Features such as adjusting the x and y-axis scales are coming soon!
Don't worry about shutting down the serial forwarder, log server or web app. All your data will be there next time you start it up. Your entire database is stored in the file BioBoardSite/db/dev.sqlite so if you want to back it up, simply shut down the log server and make a copy of that file.